I got a housemate with endless complaints and troubles.
He is a French guy with life habits such as having all his pants washed once in 2 months, so he will complain me about using the washing machine "too frequently", which he considers harms his money as we are supposed to share the bills half by half. Same things happen to shower.
I have to admit that I am careless, sometimes I will leave the lamps in the doorway on for a quater when I am busy in kitchen. Whenever he caught me once, even that never happens again, he will complain this matter every time he metions life issues and in a tone like I have been doing that all the time. What is more, he will keep talking about my bad stories in office to other students and ruin my reputation (I am new here, he has been here for 3 yeas for his PhD). And these students are in a same office with me too! I really don't like talking about others' private things in office. I feel like I could do nothing helpful.
Also he will scold me for dirtyness for things like a leaf on the floor. He would say it was me who brought the leaf here and his only reason was that he believed it can not be him. (Well I can say I believe it was not me too, and actually it should be from the opening windows). However I am sorry to say his room has an abosolutely horrible smell, which indicates he does not really care for cleanness, he just wants to find me troubles. And he just simplely does not use the living room (having no visitors so far) and does not cook.
To scold me, he even made up scenes. For example, he moved out his bag and books (which had been on the floor of living room for months) several days before he came to me with a written list of my guilts, leaving my stuff (I have to say that was tidy) and public things only, and then accused me for "using the living room as personal storage place".
I think why he is doing all those is because he thinks I use more gas and electricity. I understand that he does not want to pay for what he does not use. But when I asked if he had any plans, he never gave an answer, but kept finding troubles and scolding to express his unsatisfication. I remembered when my laptop was on its way, he scold me that my small laptop would use more energy than his large desktop computer. He talked in such an ironic tone that I almost believed him, and so did other students in the office where he shouted to me I think. But my laptop was 75W, while a simple moniter could be more than this. And most small laptops charge far less than desktop computers in fact.
And his way of talking is so rude. I am a 160cm+ 21 year-old girl while he is like 180cm+ and 25+. He shouted at me, kicked my things. When I said you were not polite, he just paid no attention to me and even shouted "shut up" to me. Actually my speaking English is so poor that I would not be able to say a lot. When he shouted "shut up" for the third time, I left the table with no word and then he cut off my internet as a reward. And the last time he came to me, he said something like "if you are saying I am rude, I can show you what is rude". When he lived with another boy, who is as tall and as strong as him, he never dared to talk in a way like that.
I tried to ask the landlord for help. But the funny thing is that he plays two faces too well. He even convinced the landlord that he shouted "shut up" to me on my faults and he did have "very good reasons" to cut off my network. I regret that I did not have a recorder when he came to scold me.
I am feeling sad and desperate. The flat I am living is at a good plave and a good price. But I can not feel happy in a single day with present situation. Could anyone give an advice?
